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MandrakeMove Final Available for Download

Posted by timothy on from the embarrassment-of-riches dept.

hendridm writes "According to the Mandrake Linux web page, 'MandrakeMove is available for download - Everything for Office, Multimedia and Internet on a single live CD: the final version of MandrakeMove Download Edition is now publicly available for download. Make your Windows-friends discover how powerful and friendly Mandrake Linux is: this couldn't be easier than with MandrakeMove!' Go team." (We mentioned this version of Mandrake before; of course, if you download, you don't get a memory key with the deal ;))

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  1. Boxed version vs. Download version by DF5JT · · Score: 4, Insightful

    # The MandrakeMove Boxed Edition is now available at MandrakeStore.com. The Boxed Edition provides the MandrakeMove system, plus the capability to save configuration and personal data to a USB key, plus additional commercial software such as NVidia(R) drivers, Acrobat(R) ReaderTM, RealPlayerTM, FlashPlayerTM, and MandrakeMove documentation.

    I call that a good reason to buy the boxed version. When travelling, this is the perfect way to have your office at hand with 99% of the Wintel-Boxes out there.

  2. Before everyone and their dog mentions knoppix by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Remember that knoppix is still a geek orientated distro. It is based on debian, has hundreds of apps with confusing labels. What is a mc, qtparted, rosegarden for example. Also you need to enter a COMMAND LINE (evil, evil evil!) to enable the USB key on knoppix. Mandrake is a distro for the rest of us.

  3. Re:Great news! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful
    Go with Fedora if want access to an acceptable testbed desktop with free access to updates and packages. Also has a larger hacker community here and there is earlier releases of nvidia drivers and other stuff for this redhat relative. most energy is here.

    Go with Mandrake if you want an easier to use desktop that requires a cheap club membership for dead easy updates and support.

    I'm sitting on redhat9 until Mandrake 10 is released in a few months. fedora is too ...... too ...... not-all-together.

  4. Re:I made my Mandrake move. by FuzzyBad-Mofo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Funny, I feel the same way about SuSE 8.0 which I ran for about a year. I never liked YAST or SuSE's buggy X11 config utility. Last year I moved to MDK 9.1 and couldn't be happier. Perhaps we each simply had bad luck with the version of the distributions we first used extensively, at any rate it's probably a mistake to judge a distro soley on the merits of a single version.

  5. Re:Klaus Knopper by ScrewMaster · · Score: 2, Insightful

    a. I think he was just trying to be funny, and ...

    b. Stupider things have been patented recently.

    The fact that clicking a mouse button ONCE to purchase a product online is both obvious, non-innovative and has plenty of prior art didn't stop Amazon from patenting it successfully.

    --
    The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
  6. Without support for Winmodems... by stankulp · · Score: 4, Insightful
    ...most of the newbies will boot it once and forget it.

    Once you can get on the 'Net with Linux, you're in business.

    If you can't get on the 'Net, most people won't even bother with it.

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    We must be alert to the danger that public policy could become captive to a scientific-technological elite. - Eisenhower
    1. Re:Without support for Winmodems... by prockcore · · Score: 2, Insightful

      If you can't get on the 'Net, most people won't even bother with it.

      Yes, but most people can get on the net. According to omniture's SiteCatalyst (aka SuperStats) only 39% of web users connect with a modem, 60% use broadband.

      (for our own site, it's even more dramatic, only 26% use a modem, 71% use broadband)

  7. Re:Great news! by tahtalim · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Fedora seems like a good option to me, the way it resembles Debian.
    On the other hand why don't you try Knoppix/Debian, I never had any problem installing Knoppix to a new computer. At the end you get the real power of Debian which is apt.

  8. Concerning, concerning by Mike+Hawk · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Make your Windows-friends discover how powerful and friendly Mandrake Linux is: this couldn't be easier than with MandrakeMove!

    Friends don't MAKE friends do anything. Sometimes I encourage them to try something. Sometimes I suggest they not do something. Mandrake Linux, the distro for Kim Jong-il. Make your friends use it! Or else!

  9. Key Limitations by danwiz · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Where do software updates and additions go? A 256Mb USB "key" isn't going to hold much, and I'd hate to have to re-install my "non-standard" software every time I switched machines. Also, The product specs mention "no risk to existing data on hard drives". Does that mean no hard-drive access or no hard-drive partitioning?

    Examples - Open Office releases a newer version than what's on the CD (with a 300Mb footprint), or there's a browser secuity patch. Now what?

    Seems like expansion may be limited.

  10. Tough job by sanctimonius+hypocrt · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Mandrake may have the desktop experience to do this well, but the field is very competitive. With all the variants of knoppix out there, they need to stand out from a big crowd. Selling it with a USB key might help to differentiate it from the others, and of course there's urpmi.

  11. Re:Great news! by gaijin99 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Use Gentoo! Best distro I've ever used!
    I use Gentoo myself, mainly to avoid Dependancy Hell, but it gets old waiting 10+ hours for KDE or any other massive program to compile. Frankly, the speed boost for a specific to me compile isn't really worth the hassle of having to wait for the compile...

    OTOH, I have learned more about Linux since I tried Gentoo than I ever did while using Redhat or Mandrake. Which is the real reason I chose it. I needed something that would force me to learn how to use it better.

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    "Mission Accomplished" -- George W. Bush May 1, 2003
  12. Knoppix Geek Oriented? by thelizman · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I pass out Knoppix discs to new users all the time. There's no log in, there's no boot paramters, any issues are handled with plain english questions, and most of all, it's visually pleasing. They love it. It gets them started on Linux. You'd be surprised how many people miss DOS and prefer command line, even non-geek computer users.

    I dont know what standard you use for geekness, but I consider Gentoo, Debian, or BSD to be geek oriented os's.